The Supreme Court just proved that its gun rulings have been a disaster
The Supreme Court just proved that its gun rulings have been a disaster
The justices double-down on the laws of the 18th century.
Maybe personal beliefs shouldn't be imposed on policy that affects different people of different faiths. Wish that was written down somewhere. We could use it as a guideline for how the founding fathers wished the country would be run.
In 2019, Texan Zackey Rahimi assaulted his girlfriend and fired his gun at a witness. He was put under a domestic violence restraining order, which he violated by possessing a firearm—an infraction under a 1994 federal laws—which he fired at people on multiple occasions. In his defense, Rahimi argued that the restraining order’s gun ban violated his 2nd Amendment right to bear arms.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed: there was no 18th century law analogous enough to the statute barring Rahimi from possessing a gun, and therefore under Bruen, that statute must be unconstitutional.
Yo what the FUCK
I can see why Texas is the venue that Republicans go to when they wanna get some crazy shit into precedent on a federal level
The 18th century analogy standard was widely misused. Probably because SCOTUS didn’t make it clear and it’s a strange standard anyway. But yeah, the fifth circuit is a wild one
I mean it’s basically a gateway to bad laws
“If there’s any dispute between how it used to be and how it is now, we want to make it so how it used to be wins”
“Wait isn’t there usually a reason they changed it?”
“I said no questions”
It's like exigent circumstances only exist when it benefits their arguments...
Confused what the complaint is here, they ruled that you can't be a criminal and own a firearm.
We have a bigger issue that abusers are rarely forced to give up their firearms.
Some folks are trying to spin this ruling as good news for Hunter Biden and I don't see it.
The court ruled it's OK to deny gun rights to domestic abusers.
People really think they'll deny abusers but allow crack addicts? 🤔
"Some folks"
Who tf cares about Hunter Biden?